different between compliant vs biddable

English

Etymology

comply +? -ant

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?m?pl???nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?m?pla??nt/
• Hyphenation: com?pli?ant
• Rhymes: -a??nt

Adjective

compliant (comparative more compliant, superlative most compliant)

1. Willing to comply; submissive; willing to do what someone wants.

   Synonyms: yielding, bending, pliant

2. Compatible with or following guidelines, specifications, rules, or laws.

Synonyms

• conformant; see also Thesaurus:conformant

Antonyms

• non-compliant, noncompliant

Derived terms

• compliantly

Related terms

• compliance

Translations

Anagrams

• coimplant, complaint

English

Etymology

bid +? -able

Adjective

biddable (comparative more biddable, superlative most biddable)

1. Docile, amenable or compliant.
   • 1922, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Chapter, [2]

     The conscripts took their fate unquestioning: resignedly, after the custom of Turkish peasantry. […] There was about them a hopeless, fever-wasted lack of initiative, which made them the most biddable, most enduring, and least spirited soldiers in the world.

   • 2005, Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945, Penguin, Part Two, Chapter XIII, p. 431,

     What Western diplomats thought they saw in Bucharest's anti-Russian autocrats were the germs of a new Tito: stable, biddable and more interested in local power than international disruption.

2. (bridge) Suitable for bidding.

Translations

Derived terms

• biddability
• biddably
• unbiddable

Anagrams

• ad libbed, ad-libbed, adlibbed